CAST Canada Presents a Special 2-day Workshop
– Lovely Natural Setting on The Credit River
– Healthy, Fun Lunch Provided Outdoors
“Trauma And Addiction – Practical Tools for General Helping Professionals”
With Consumer Panel !!
– Celebrating our 50th Consumer Panel !!
– Special Augmented Agenda
August 27th & 28th, ( Thurs – Fri ) 2009
Glen Williams ( near Georgetown Ontario )
$280 + gst
Book Early !! Registration limited to 25 people
For Details and Easy Registration http://www.cast-canada.ca/50Main.html
Added Discussion: Harm Reduction Approaches and Trauma Survivors – an exploration
This Workshop is For:
You are a frontline worker, program planner or any helping professionals where trauma, loss and unresolved
grief are an issue. The workshop is popular with housing support and shelter workers, street outreach, social
service workers, social workers, job developers, case managers, drop-in workers, nurses, crisis support and
abuse workers, probation & parole officers, release from custody planners, EAP professionals, university and
college professors, private therapists, teachers of all kinds …
” I will always remember the strategies used - Real people, Real scenarios, Real Tools !!
Cathy Loyst, United Way, Ajax-Pickering-Uxbridge
You Will Receive:
– Solid, practical tools developed by workers like you in discussion with Ontario consumers
– Confidence to apply the tools safely and productively
– An understanding of trauma and addiction that simplifies counselling work often described as complex
– Candid testimonials from people who have been there, some who are there.
The Organic Origin of the Tools:
Since 2004 CAST Canada has held 49 Consumer Panel Discussion workshops around central Ontario .
Over 1800 front-line workers from a wide variety of helping professions attended the sessions. Over time
certain themes consistently emerged as valuable to the workers. These themes were presented at the
panels for further discussion where they were distilled down to 5 solid, relevant productive ideas. In 2008
CAST Canada held a series of small “BoilerRoom” style workshops where small groups ( 8-10 ) of
frontline workers worked hard to adapt the ideas into reality, to find safe, productive ways to help clients
thus developing this series of helpful practical tools. These tools will be presented in full form with
discussion around applying them in your unique work environment.
After some exploration of Harm Reduction philosophies applied to trauma work we will have a consumer
panel – hear from those who have been there about what worked and what didn’t. Enjoy brave, focussed
discussion with consumers and colleagues.
For more details and easy registration http://www.cast-canada.ca/50Main.html
CAST = “Come And Sit Together”
CAST Canada has been holding consumer panels and trauma workshops in central Ontario since 2004
1-905-877-6547 register@cast-canada.ca http://www.cast-canada.ca/
